rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (11/09/84)
You have six unbreakable, unbendable matches. Can you form 4 equilateral triangles without crossing any matches?
emneufeld@water.UUCP (Animal D.H.) (11/12/84)
I *hope* this is *not* the solution to: >>Can you place 6 unbendable unbreakable matches in such a way >>that they form 4 equilaterial triangles? Soln: Build a stupid tetrahedron with them? I'm not too very geometrical so by that I mean, lay a triangle on the ground, and select just the right point above it so that the other three matches will join up with the corners of the triangle. This *can't* be the solution. It is too babyish. But it works.
david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron) (11/13/84)
EASY!
Anybody who has played d&d knows this. It is the 4-sided dice
(whatever the greek name for it is, "tetrahedron"?) or "pyrimid".
Er, pyrimid with triangular base.
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I have been having intermittent problems with this address though.pwong@pixel.DEC (Paul H. Wong) (11/14/84)
>Newsgroups: net.puzzle >Subject: triangles >Posted: Fri Nov 9 12:34:09 1984 > >You have six unbreakable, unbendable matches. Can you form >4 equilateral triangles without crossing any matches? Sure, just make a pyramid with a triangular base. - Paul Wong To: ME,RHEA::DECWRL::net.puzzle